In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917-2015

Herbert E Wright Jr was one of the foremost Quaternary scientists of the last century. He made wide ranging contributions to our understanding of the late-Quaternary of North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This was based largely on reconstructing palaeoenvironments from lake sediments and included the important implications for glacial, vegetational, fire and climatic history, geoarchaeology and conservation. Many of his inter-disciplinary research projects involved fieldwork with his graduate students and co-workers from the University of Minnesota where he created and led the renowned Limnological Research Center. Perhaps his most outstanding contribution was as an instigator of the Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project (COHMAP). This triggered a paradigm shift in Holocene climatic research involving the comparison of climate-model simulations of past climates with palaeoclimatic data.

Mitteilungen der Hauptstelle für Berufsberatung der Juden : Februar 1917

Berufsberatung der Juden / Hauptstelle

Mitteilungen der Hauptstelle für Berufsberatung der Juden : März 1917

Berufsberatung der Juden / Hauptstelle

Gedenkrede für Maximilian Horwitz : gehalten am 11. November 1917

Eugen Fuchs

Georges Rodenbach [Illustration] : (Porträt)

Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

Joseph Halévy : geb. 15. Dezember 1827 in Adrianopel - gest. im Februar 1917 in Paris

Felix Perles

H. Graetz : zu seinem hundertsten Geburtstage (31. Oktober 1917)

Ludwig Blau

Use of Otolith Strontium:Calcium Ratios for Hindcasting Larval Cod Gadus Morhua Distributions Relative to Water Masses on Georges Bank

The concentration ratios of strontium to calcium in laboratory-reared larval cod otoliths are shown to be related to the water temperature (T) at the time of otolith precipitation. This relationship is curvilinear, and is best described by a simple exponential equation of the form (Sr/Ca x 1000 = a exp(-T/b). We show that when Sr/Ca elemental analyses are related to the daily growth increments in the larval otoliths, relative temperature histories of individual field-caught larvae can be reconstructed from the egg stage to the time of capture. We present preliminary examples of how such reconstructed temperature histories of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua larvae, collected on Georges Bank during April and May 1993, may be interpreted in relation to the broad-scale larval distributions and the hydrography of the Bank.